Sending E-mails through a local SMTP server

[Wil]

When using Outlook in a non-Exchange server profile (i.e.
receiving mail through a POP3 server and sending through a
SMTP server), is it possible to have Outlook send outbound
e-mail through the local SMTP server?

I believe that with certain installations of Windows 2000
Pro and Windows XP Pro, an SMTP server is included. I've
tried setting outlook to use the local SMTP server but it
is unable to send through the local SMTP server. I've
tried setting the outbound server to the local machine
name, actual IP address, loopback IP address (127.0.0.1),
as well as (local) but it never works. Any ideas on this?

- thanks

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

You'd have to make sure that the SMTP server service is actually running on
the server in question. It's probably not installed by default.


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[Jonathan E. \(NZ\)]

Hi Wil,
I tried using the local smtp server some years ago (on NT)...
Was problimatic... sometimes emails would get queued in there and not sent
(ie. if the computer didn't have net access when I sent the mail)... and
other problems... Mail vanishing etc.

A solution that worked for me was to use AUTOROUNTE SMTP from
http://www.mailutilities.com/ars/ (it's free).\
This allows you to set up a list of SMTP servers that you have access to...

Then you just sent mail with LOCALHOST and this small app will redirect the
mail out through whichever SMTP server it is able to access.

It all depends on what your intentions are though.
For me it was simply that I travel alot (with a laptop). When in a new
location I would have a new ISP or a borrowed connection from a friend etc.
So the SMTP server would keep changing.
I have about 15 emails accounts set up on Outlook (for various business
related things).
Changing SMTP settings on them all each time was a nightmare.
So with this small app I never change them.
I can just add a new smtp server to the list in AUTOROUTE and when I dial up
to that ISP it automatically (via the IP address) figures out which SMTP
server I should be using.

This might be what you are looking for.

Regards,

Jonathan